Diana, Princess of Wales

The Elvis dress, November 1989 In Hong Kong in the Catherine Walker column dress of white silk covered in pearls and sequins, with a matching bolero whose stand-up collar is thought to have inspired the name she gave it herself: the Elvis dress. She had first worn it the month before at the British Fashion Awards in London. Worn here with a tiara, it is the high point of her pearl-encrusted 1980s evening look, and it now belongs to the V&A in London.